(S) NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00326R000100030014-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 2004
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: June 14, 1962
• Content Type: REGULATION

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T O P S E C R E T
Excluded from
Automatic Re-
grading:
DOD DIR 5200.1
does not apply.
June 14, 1962
Number TS 5105.23
GC, DoD
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DIRECTIVE
SUBJECT: (S) National Reconnaissance Office
I. GENERAL
Pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary of
Defense and the provisions of the National Security Act
of 1947, as amended, including the Department of Defense
Reorganization Act of 1958, a (S) National Reconnaissance
Office is hereby established as an operating agency of
the Department of Defense, under the direction and super-
vision of the Secretary of Defense.
II. ORGANIZATION AND RESPONSIBILITY
The (S) National Reconnaissance Office will be organized
separately within the Department of Defense under a (S)
Director, National Reconnaissance Office, appointed by
the Secretary of Defense. The Director will be respon-
sible for consolidation of all Department of Defense
satellite and air vehicle overflight projects for in-
telligence, geodesy and mapping photography and elec-
tronic signal collection into a single program, defined
as the (TS) National Reconnaissance Program, and for
the complete management and conduct of this Program in
accordance with policy guidance and decisions of the
Secretary of Defense.
III. RELATIONSHIPS
A. In carrying out his responsibilities for the (TS)
National Reconnaissance Program, the (S) Director,
National Reconnaissance Office, shall:
NRO and OSD review(s) completed.
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1. Keep the Director of Defense Research and
Engineering and the Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Comptroller) personally informed on
a regular basis on the status of projects of
the (TS) National Reconnaissance Program.
2. Similarly inform other Department of Defense
personnel as he may determine necessary in the
course of carrying out specific project matters.
3. Establish appropriate interfaces between the
(S) National Reconnaissance Office and the United
States Intelligence Board, the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the
National Security Agency.
4. Where appropriate, make use of qualified personnel
of services and agencies of the Department of
Defense as full time members of the (S) National
Reconnaissance Office.
B. Officials of the Office of the Secretary of Defense,
military departments, and other DOD agencies shall
provide support within their respective fields of
responsibility, to the (S) Director, National Recon-
naissance Office as may be necessary for the Director
to carry out his assigned responsibilities and func-
tions. Streamlined management procedures will be
utilized whereby individual project directors will
report directly to the (S) Director, National Recon-
naissance Office. The (S) Director, National Recon-
naissance Office will be given support as required
from normal staff elements of the military depart-
ments and agencies concerned, although these staff
elements will not participate in these project mat-
ters except as he specifically requests, and these
projects will not be subject to normal Department of
Defense staff review.
IV. AUTHORITIES
A. The (S) Director, National Reconnaissance Office, in
connection with his assigned responsibilities for the
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(S) National Reconnaissance Office and the (TS)
National Reconnaissance Program, is hereby apecific-
ally delegated authority to:
1. Organize, staff, and supervise the (S) National
Reconnaissance Office.
2. Establish, manage and conduct the (TS) National
Reconnaissance Program.
3. Assist the Secretary of Defense in the super-
vision of aircraft, drone and satellite recon-
naissance, mapping and geodesy matters, including
both photographic and electronic signal projects,
and be his direct representative on these matters
both within and outside the Department of Defense.
4. Review all Department of Defense budget requests
and expenditures for any items falling within the
definition of the (TS) National Reconnaissance
Program, including studies and preliminary re-
search and development of components and tech-
niques to support such existing or future projects.
B. Other authorities specifically delegated to the (S)
Director, National Reconnaissance Office by the Secre-
tary of Defense will be referenced in numbered en-
closures to this directive.
All projects falling within the definition of the (TS)
National Reconnaissance Program are assigned to that pro-
gram and will be managed as outlined herein unless spe-
cific exception is made by the (S) Director, National
Reconnaissance Office. Announcements of any such excep-
tions will be made by numbered enclosures to this
directive.
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VI. SECURITY
The (S) Director, National Reconnaissance Office will
establish the security procedures to be followed for
all matters of the (TS) National Reconnaissance Program,
including suitable unclassified names and functions to
protect all elements of the (S) National Reconnaissance
Office.
This Directive is effective upon publication.
(Signed)
Roswell Gilpatric
Acting Secretary of Defense
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